Communicative Practices at Work : : Multimodality and Learning in a High-Tech Firm / / Jo Anne Kleifgen.
This book examines communicative practices in a circuit-board manufacturing plant in California's Silicon Valley, where the employees come from diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds, their activities involve the use of high-tech equipment and their practices are shaped by, and sometimes contest,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Language, Mobility and Institutions
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Theorizing Communicative Practices at Work
- 2. Genesis, Inc. and Its People
- 3. Multimodal Interaction on the Assembly Floor
- 4. Doing Social Work: Power Relations in Interaction
- 5. Globalizing Forces and Quality-Control Certification
- 6. Learning-in-Practice
- 7. Conclusion: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Communicative Practices at Work
- Appendix
- References
- Index